❝What started life as the Famicom (Family Computer) in Japan went on to become the machine that saved the videogame industry. After a major games slump in the west, The Nintendo Entertainment System defied pundits and sold in millions. Gamers scrambled to see and play classics like Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda and Excitebike, all of which were leaps and bounds ahead of other home systems' games.❞ nintendo.co.uk
Mega Man 5 Sound Collection includes both the NES soundtrack composed by Mari Yamaguchi and PlayStation arrangements.
Mega Man 6 Sound Collection, composed by Yuko Takehara, can be purchased through Steam, streaming on Spotify and Amazon Music Unlimited.
Gimmick! 30th anniversary cover album, composed by Masashi Kageyama and arranged by R3tronaut, posted to Bandcamp.
Preorders open at Laced Records of London for the Mega Man 2 & 3 vinyl soundtrack, pressed to two ‘Mega Buster Blue’ heavyweight analog records.
Music from Castlevania Kuro (Black) classic soundtrack compilation box set by the Konamistyle label contains thirteen compact discs.
Square Enix's Final Fantasy Revival Disc Blu-Ray revisits Nobuo Uematsu's music scores for the 8-bit Famicom role-playing game trilogy.
Japan-exclusive Collector's Edition of Famicom Detective Club for Nintendo Switch ships with 75-track album on two compact discs.
Konamistyle's ten-disc shoot-em-up music compilation, titled "Music from Konami Arcade Shooting," due out January 20 in Japan.
Soundtracks from Konami's Castlevania Anniversary Collection available for streaming online on the Apple Music platform.
Half a dozen digital soundtracks from Konami's Contra Anniversary Collection available for streaming on the Apple Music platform.
"All-Stars," Rare's 35th Anniversary Collection, showcases soundtrack selections from across the decades, streaming on Spotify and Apple Music.
Preorders open for iam8bit's Battletoads: Smash Hits pink double vinyl, featuring music from the 1991 & 2020 iterations of Battletoads.
Retro game soundtrack label Clarice Disc publishes digital soundtrack to City Connection (1985) through Spotify and Apple Music.
Square Enix publishes Four Souls vinyl record, containing original and arranged tracks from Final Fantasy III composed by Nobuo Uematsu.
Commemorating Contra's 30th anniversary, Mondo published NES vinyl soundtrack album, featuring music composed by the Konami Kukeiha Club.
The vinyl release of the Konami Kukeiha Club's 1998 soundtrack to the NES port of Metal Gear is now in stock at Mondo.
Kirby Café locations opened in Tokyo and Hakata, serving food items styled after visuals from HAL Laboratory's platforming game series.
Performed by Hiroyuki Nakayama, arrangement album "Piano Opera Final Fantasy I/II/III" includes town and battle medleys from the Famicom trilogy.